The Forest Plantation Development Fund Board (FPDFB) in 2018 designed a plantation development scheme under three different implementation models to encourage interested young entrepreneurs to develop private commercial forest plantations within selected degraded forest reserves. Model 1 targeted unemployed graduate foresters or unemployed graduates of similar backgrounds and was piloted in three (3) forest reserves (Essen Epam, Tinte Bepo and Tain II) located in three (3) administrative regions (Eastern, Ashanti and Bono) respectively.